Liviu Dragnea

Liviu Dragnea (28 October 1962-) was President of the Social Democratic Party of Romania from 12 October 2015 to 27 May 2019, succeeding Rovana Plumb and preceding Viorica Dancila.

Biography
Liviu Dragnea was born in Gratia, Romania on 28 October 1962, and he began his political career in 1996 when he was elected a city councillor for Turnu Magurele. From 1996 to 2000, he served as Prefect of Teleorman County, and, in 2000, he switched his allegiance from the Democratic Party of Romania to the Social Democratic Party of Romania. He became a major powerbroker within the PSD, and he was often accused of corruption. However, he rose in the party ranks and briefly served as Minister of Administration and Interior in 2009, Minister of Regional Development and Administration from 2012 to 2015, and Deputy Prime Minister from 2012 to 2014 before becoming President of the PSD in 2015. In April 2016, he received a two-year suspended sentence for a case involving electoral fraud, and, in May 2019, he was sent to prison for three and a half years for paying two party members for fake jobs with money provided by a state agency, ending his political career.